Man Arrested and Charged for 2000 Killing After DA Disavows Previous Conviction
Calvin Atchison is now charged for a crime that Paul Garrett already served prison time for
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When Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk earlier this month disavowed the conviction of a man named Paul Garrett for the 2000 murder of a Nashville sex worker, they didn't just say that police and prosecutors 20 years ago got the wrong guy. A report from the office's Conviction Review Unit also made clear that at least some police officers and prosecutors have believed for some time that they knew who Velma Tharpe's real killer was.